Faculty Positions in Finance, Xiamen University, China

Xiamen University, founded in 1921 by Mr. Tan Kah-Kee, a well-known Chinese expatriate, is located in the resort-like island of Xiamen in Southeast China. Under the leadership of Professor Wang Yanan, a former Xiamen University President and the Chinese translator of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, the School of Economics at Xiamen University has been one of the top economics schools in China since 1950s. To further develop and promote modern economics and the related fields, Xiamen University established an internationalized research institute in 2005, which is named as the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics. Gregory and Paula Chow Center for Economic Research was founded in 2016 with the aim to build a world-renowned research center on modern economics and the Chinese economy. The main missions of WISE, SOE and the Chow center are to conduct high-quality graduate/undergraduate education and training, frontier research, and intensively international academic exchanges and cooperation in economics and the related fields.

The finance faculty members in WISE and Department of Finance at the School of Economics have published articles in top journals, such as Econometrica, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and Review of Financial Studies. We have successfully hosted high quality conferences, such as the 2016 China International Conference in Finance (CICF), European Financial Management 2017 Symposium, the 2nd Greater China Area Finance Conference (2018), and will organize more international conferences. Having successfully recruited about 100 faculty members from abroad in the past ten years, WISE, Department of Finance at the School of Economics, Gregory and Paula Chow Center for Economic Research still have several faculty positions available in all areas of finance at all ranks.

Junior candidates are expected to have a Ph.D. degree by August 2021 and show evidence of promising research ability. Senior candidates must have a Ph.D. degree and a demonstrably strong research record. Competitive salary, research grant and housing subsidy are provided, with a regular teaching load of 2 courses per year. All faculty members, regardless of their citizenship, enjoy a housing subsidy for the first six years. Detailed information is available at the website http://www.wise.xmu.edu.cn/english.

We will organize online interviews based on the application materials and the application pool of candidates.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter with their curriculum vitae, samples of their research work, and three reference letters (including any teaching evaluations) before November 30, 2020.

Applicant should also register and complete online application via http://www.wise.xmu.edu.cn/faculty.

CONTACT INFORMATION: Recruiting Committee, c/o Ms Shuya Wang, Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE) & School of Economics, Gregory and Paula Chow Center for Economic Research, Room N112, Economics Building, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, China or email wiserecruit@xmu.edu.cn